starts right now. i m john roberts. next november we re going to win so big. i m not going to be somebody s circus monkey a pawn on a chess board. we re not playing that game. you join me in this fight, i promise you our best days are yet to come. you guys support me, elect me. you re going to be satisfied when i get to work because you re going to say you know what? he s doing what he said he was going to do. martha: here we go. i m martha maccallum. this is the story. the first 2024 presidential contest is four weeks from today. the polls show the former president way ahead in iowa and nationwide. take a look at these numbers when it comes to a head-to-head with the president, joe biden, former south carolina governor and former u.n. ambassador nikki haley is six points ahead of the current president in the brand new fox news polls and it shows former president trump would also win a 2020 rematch by four points. former white house press secretary ari fleischer a
of sweet and low has the potential to kill 500 people fentanyl seizures sky rocking across the country. these parents know too well the horrific consequences. zach was a 17-year-old high school senior. he had no history with abusing drugs or alcohol. so it was a complete shock to us when he was at his desk and passed away two days after christmas of 2020. she went on the stream to get replacement nor a benzodiazepine. it was straight-up fentanyl and killed instantly. got drugs delivered to our house at night like a pizza over snap chat. jumped the fence, got what killed him and we found him in his room in what they call the fentanyl death pose. his mom was stroking his hair and i was holding his hand when he took his last death. martha: florida s attorney yeah is classing to push fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction in this country and suing the biden administration over their border policies fuelling the crisis. first we go to matt finn near the southern border
the horse patrol agents were not carrying whips and there s no evidence that they hit anyone with their reins. we have a texas congressman standing by. first to bill melugin in eagle pass, texas. good afternoon, bill. trace, good afternoon to you. it s been nearly ten months since this incident first took place in del rio last september. timely cbp held a press conference to announce the findings of their investigation. they just threw cold water on the false narrative that started last year accusing these horseback agents of whipping haitian my grantses. cbp says that they found no evidence whatsoever that any haitian migrants were whipped or struck by the horseback border patrol agents. but they re recommending discipline for four agents accusing them of administrative violations, including working in an unsafe manner and unprofessional comment. one agent was using derogatory language and maneuvered his horse in an unsafe way near a child. they say other agents used the t
border patrol council are toque who art del cueto will join us on that. we began america reports this friday with june unemployment report beating expectation but still below pre-pandemic levels. with inflation still climbing. hello, i am in for sandra smith and rich, hello to you. good afternoon, i am in for john roberts. 372,000 jobs added last month in unemployment rate to study at 3.6% but record number of job openings persist with two jobs available for every unemployed person and there are still concerns over runaway inflation and new jobs report shows rising costs with average earnings. anita: meanwhile the president is taking heat for more than just the economy and some of his own party criticize him for a lack of action on guns and abortion. the president s last hour sending executive order to access to abortion and the move comes two weeks after the supreme court overturned roe v. wade. rich: mark meredith live on the beautiful lawn of the white house, mar
and our reporting begins with breaking news this thursday afternoon. the senate is this moment voting on a pair of proposals to reopen the government. one bill includes $5.7 billion for the president s wall or barrier along the southern barreder. the other has no money at all for a wall. as it turns out, neither bill is expected to survive. so what is the point? well, our senior producer, chad pergram says today s vote could be a reset that might, i don t know, nudge both republicans and democrats back toward the negotiating table. while lawmakers are voting on capitol hill, hundreds of thousands of federal workers are set to miss their second paycheck in a row tomorrow forcing many americans to figure out other ways to pay their bills. mike emanuel reporting live from capitol hill. shep, part of the pitch for president trump s plan, the first one that they re voting on is that it would reopen government and the president